noob with a now useless iphone - please help! *SOLVED*

[soundweave]

this is my first jailbreak, and it's not going so well.

i have an iphone 3g.

I already upgraded my phone to regular OS 4, then decided to jailbreak it today.

I used snowbreeze 1.7 and made a custom ipsw file, put my iphone in DFU mode as instructed, connected to itunes, and tried to restore. It gives me an error, "this iphone could not be restored" the number is 1600. Any idea what's going on?

This is pretty urgent because I now have an expensive paperweight sitting on my desk.

thanks for any help!

 

[Vertigo50]

You need to put the phone in DFU mode so you can restore it.

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034

 

[soundweave]

yup, it's already in DFU mode (I'm pretty sure, the screen is off and will not turn on). When I plug it into itunes, itunes gives me the message: "Itunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iphone before it can be used with itunes "

i read somewhere that the problem is that my iphone was not jailbroken already... what do i do now? :/

 

[wanzer]

If you're already on 4.0, it's as easy as running the latest redsnow to jailbreak. Then install ultrasnow through cydia for the unlock (if you need it).

 

[No ice please]

You're in recovery mode not DFU.

 

[soundweave]

Thanks so much! The redsn0w jailbreak is working and jailbreaking as i type. What's the point of snowbreeze then? (since it only works after you jailbreak?)

 

[MrThompsonR]

Thanks so much! The redsn0w jailbreak is working and jailbreaking as i type. What's the point of snowbreeze then? (since it only works after you jailbreak?)

Snowbreeze is intended for jailbreaking 3G/ 3Gs running 3.13

http://www.techhail.com/iphone/download-sn0wbreeze-3-1-3-to-jailbreak-iphone-3gs3g-with-3-1-3-firmware/3209

redsn0w works with IOS4.